The Royal Household has launched a beforehand unseen photograph of the Queen after she was laid to relaxation in a non-public burial.
The picture of the monarch was taken at Balmoral in 1971, with the caption typically borrowed from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “Could flights of Angels sing thee to thy relaxation.”
“In loving reminiscence of Her Majesty The Queen. 1926 – 2022.”
Pic: Lichfield
The Royal Household will observe one other week of mourning for the Queen after a state funeral on Monday filled with emotion and ceremony underneath the gaze of the world.
The household just isn’t anticipated to hold out official engagements, and flags at royal residences will stay at half-mast till 8am after the ultimate day of royal mourning.
The Queen was laid to relaxation on Monday alongside her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, on the King George VI Memorial Chapel, a part of St George’s Chapel, within the grounds of Windsor Fortress.
The household’s web site stated the burial service, attended by shut members of the family, was carried out by the Dean of Windsor.
Earlier than the burial, some 800 friends attended a committal service in St George’s, which concluded with the crown, orb and sceptre – symbols of the Queen’s energy and governance – being faraway from the coffin and positioned on the altar.
The Lord Chamberlain, essentially the most senior official within the royal family, then broke his “wand of workplace”, signifying the top of his service to the sovereign, and positioned it on the casket earlier than it slowly descended into the royal vault.
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Earlier within the day, 2,000 individuals, together with overseas royalty and world leaders, attended the Queen’s state funeral at Westminster Abbey.
Throughout his sermon, the Archbishop of Canterbury advised the congregation the outpouring of emotion for the Queen “arises from her ample life and loving service, now gone from us”.
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He advised mourners: “Individuals of loving service are uncommon in any stroll of life. Leaders of loving service are nonetheless rarer.
“However in all circumstances those that serve will probably be liked and remembered when those that cling to energy and privileges are forgotten.
The Queen’s state funeral
“The grief of this present day – felt not solely by the late Queen’s household however all around the nation, Commonwealth and world – arises from her ample life and loving service, now gone from us.
“She was joyful, current to so many, touching a large number of lives.”